| Show executions INTHE IN ti THE tim eighteenth CENTURY in aggravated cases the bodies w were ere hung bung iti in chains cheffis on public spots generally as con as convenient to the scene beene of their crimp and that they were numerous wo we may infer inter ir from the f following oll oil wing passages in the alan annual register of 1763 all the gibbets in the E are load road on which in ny m 1 alefas torf tori tores ls were we r hung in clain were ivere cut clil down by persons unk unknown 1 verily this road with ag its many gibbets gib bits must have f formed ormed a picturesque avenue through chich to enter london pregnant with ith sad aa of rapine and midnight murder the manner in which the burning of bf women for petit treason was effected at a period near the close cloie of the century is nsf fully ully detailed in the chelmsford chronicle of june 23 1786 and then thed savored wa more re of a means of insulting their thein remains after detailing the execution of six men far various of fences the report proceeds 3 rob proceeds roc eeds abouna quarter of an ab hou hour after rafter the thi platform had dropped the female convict harris hams counterfeiting the coin called shilling was led by two officers of justice jl just stice iee lea to a stake fixed in I 1 n the ground about the midway between the scaffold and pump the stake was about eleven feet high and near ilear the top of it was inserted a curved gilece piece of bf iron the end nd of which the tile halter vas vaa vals tied The prisoner stood on a low stool 11 which whick ilch cU aft after erthe the ordinary had prayed with her a short time being taken away she was busi susi upended p eadel by byth the eneck neck her feet being scarcely mare more than twelve or fourteen inches from the pavement 4 I 1 soon OtSo hoon ozi ori after the signs of life hal haa ceased two ida iba cart loads of fa faggots maggots g 0 ts were placed plada round her i and n diat diet on fir fin fire the hames flames pre presently gently burning the halter the colv convict lct fell a f few ew inches and gasthen wa v ait bery sustained by lly a iron chain passed over her chest and affixed io to the stake some s scattered a remains of the body we wire re perceptible linage in the fire at al half balf past ten the chef fire ge had not com burnt oui oi at ht twelve prom lvios from the ta ecel leel eighteenth century ventury cl by alexander andera andrews A ahrews I 1 I 1 b sh tile THE tue tiie REDUCTION or OF ALUMINUM by the ald aid of sodium discovered by al st clair crair deville ail W likely to lead to the reduction of leveral i everal several other metals whose existence has been hitherto only respected or at best proved b by their production prod action in quantities by meads means of the galva galvanic pile sodium has already been successfully aepli applied ed by M deville to the reduction of magnesium and MM lios llos lio llo dodart Jio dart and gobin have produced calcium by the same means as we learn from a paper jiust t presented resented by them to the academy of c es school school and home journal 1 |
